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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Follow
Up File: Five Bonneville Power Officials Lost Their Positions over
Veteran-Hiring Scandal (Washington Post)
Schweitzer
Labs Puts ‘Game-Changing’ Battery Power to Test in Pullman (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Video:
No Mountain Snow in the Pacific Northwest Could Hurt Fish, Shipping, Recreation
(KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
More Bad News for British Columbia’s Wild Sockeye
– Pink salmon populations augmented by hatchery programs hurt sockeye returns,
study finds (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
The
Northwest Struggles with Coal-Generated Power from Out of State (Oregon Public
Broadcasting)
http://www.opb.org/news/article/the-northwest-struggles-with-coal-generated-power-from-out-of-state/
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Follow Up File: Five Bonneville Power Officials Lost Their Positions over Veteran-Hiring Scandal
- Whistleblowers Who Exposed Hiring Offenses at Bonneville Power Administration Win Relief
- The Northwest Struggles with Coal-Generated Power from Out of State
- Bonneville Power Administration Selects Final Path for Its Hooper Springs Transmission Project
- Seattle Residents May Get Money after City Power Surge
- White House Releases Clean Energy Fact Sheet Ahead of President Obama’s Speech in Utah
- More Bad News for British Columbia’s Wild Sockeye
- California: Non-Native Fish in San Joaquin River Newest Invasive Species
- Taking Action on Climate Change Helps Birds Now
- Video: No Mountain Snow in the Pacific Northwest Could Hurt Fish, Shipping, Recreation
- Klamath Basin Water Users Brace for another Dry Year
- Washington State to Lease Water to Bolster Summer Stream Flow
- California Drought: Who Might Feel New Water Restrictions the Most?
- NASA Scientist to the World: California has One Year of Water Left
- Schweitzer Labs Puts ‘Game-Changing’ Battery Power to Test in Pullman
- Why It Can Take So Long to Get Rooftop Solar Connected to the Grid
- This Affordable Housing Complex Has a Solar Farm on Its Roof
- Obama Pushes to Train Veterans for Solar Power
- New Interactive Map Shows Big Potential for America’s Wind Energy Future
- Corporate America's Position on the EPA's Clean Power Act
- Oregon Could Soon Pay You $3,000 to Buy an Electric Vehicle
- California Could Rein in Tesla Rebates That Mostly Go to Wealthy
- Represented: Data Centers and Taxation in Central Oregon
- Frontier Boosts Broadband Speeds in Washington State, Offering Customers Up to 150 Mbps
- Verizon Latest to Bury 'Broadcast TV Fee' Below the Line
- Another Casualty in Yemen: Internet Stability
- Monkeys 'Hinder India Internet Drive' – They’re Trying to Get More Fiber in Their Diet
- How Facebook Knows Who All Your Friends Are, Even Better Than You Do
- This Bank Found a Way for Men to Browse Pinterest without Feeling Ashamed
- Utilities Embrace Social Media, Surging Self-Generation of Power
- Ted Cruz Has a Swag Problem – A Few Tchotchkes Can Go a Long Way
- Washington State House Passes Budget
- Inslee Laments Demise of $12 Minimum Wage Bill, Hints at Ballot Measure
- Oregon Denies Money for Former First Lady's Email Release Fight
- Olympia Tire Shop Employees Thwart Man's Attack
- Lightning Strikes Two Jets on Approach to Sea-Tac Airport
- Tulalip Tribal Member Accused of Clubbing Eagles to Death, Trying to Sell Them
- Too Many Amber Alert Notifications Worry Cell Phone Owners
- Autonomous Car Drives from San Francisco to New York
Whirling
Dervish • \WHIR-ling DERR-vish\ • noun – A member of a Turkish order of
dervishes, or Sufis, whose ritual consists in part of a highly stylized
whirling dance.
Spritual
Bliss
Dance
you Whirling Dervishes
Dance
for peace and love
A
fraternity of Sufis (Muslim mystics) founded in Konya (Qonya), Anatolia, by the
Persian Sufi poet Rumi (d. 1273), whose popular title mawlana (Arabic:
"our master") gave the order its name. The order, propagated
throughout Anatolia, controlled Konya and environs by the 15th century and in
the 17th century appeared in Constantinople (Istanbul). European travelers
identified the Mawlawiyah as dancing (or whirling) dervishes, based on their
observations of the order's ritual prayer (dhikr), performed spinning on the
right foot to the accompaniment of musical instruments.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Follow
Up File: Five Bonneville Power Officials Lost Their Positions over
Veteran-Hiring Scandal (Washington Post)
Whistleblowers
Who Exposed Hiring Offenses at Bonneville Power Administration Win Relief
(Government Executive)
The
Northwest Struggles with Coal-Generated Power from Out of State (Oregon Public
Broadcasting)
http://www.opb.org/news/article/the-northwest-struggles-with-coal-generated-power-from-out-of-state/
Bonneville
Power Administration Selects Final Path for Its Hooper Springs Transmission
Project (Bonneville Power Administration)
Seattle
Residents May Get Money after City Power Surge (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
White
House Releases Clean Energy Fact Sheet Ahead of President Obama’s Speech in
Utah (KSTU-TV, Salt Lake City, UT)
FISH & WILDLIFE
More Bad News for British Columbia’s Wild Sockeye
– Pink salmon populations augmented by hatchery programs hurt sockeye returns,
study finds (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
California: Non-Native Fish in San Joaquin River
Newest Invasive Species (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Taking Action on Climate Change Helps Birds Now
(Audubon Society)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Video:
No Mountain Snow in the Pacific Northwest Could Hurt Fish, Shipping, Recreation
(KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
Klamath
Basin Water Users Brace for another Dry Year (Oregonian, Portland)
Washington
State to Lease Water to Bolster Summer Stream Flow (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
California
Drought: Who Might Feel New Water Restrictions the Most? (Christian Science
Monitor)
NASA
Scientist to the World: California has One Year of Water Left (Breaking Energy)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Schweitzer
Labs Puts ‘Game-Changing’ Battery Power to Test in Pullman (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Why It Can Take So Long to Get Rooftop Solar Connected to
the Grid (Utility Dive)
This
Affordable Housing Complex Has a Solar Farm on Its Roof (Grist Online)
Obama
Pushes to Train Veterans for Solar Power (The Hill, Washington, DC)
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/237811-obama-pushes-to-train-veterans-for-solar-power
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/237811-obama-pushes-to-train-veterans-for-solar-power
New Interactive Map Shows Big Potential for America’s Wind
Energy Future (U-S Energy Information Administration)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Corporate
America's Position on the EPA's Clean Power Act (The Guardian, UK)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Oregon
Could Soon Pay You $3,000 to Buy an Electric Vehicle (Portland Business Journal,
OR)
California
Could Rein in Tesla Rebates That Mostly Go to Wealthy (San Jose Mercury News,
CA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Represented:
Data Centers and Taxation in Central Oregon (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Frontier
Boosts Broadband Speeds in Washington State, Offering Customers Up to 150 Mbps
(Geekwire)
Verizon
Latest to Bury 'Broadcast TV Fee' Below the Line (Broadband
Reports)
Another
Casualty in Yemen: Internet Stability (Washington Post)
Monkeys
'Hinder India Internet Drive' – They’re Trying to Get More Fiber in Their Diet (British Broadcasting Corporation)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
How
Facebook Knows Who All Your Friends Are, Even Better Than You Do (Washington
Post)
This
Bank Found a Way for Men to Browse Pinterest without Feeling Ashamed (AdWeek)
Utilities
Embrace Social Media, Surging Self-Generation of Power (Transmission &
Distribution World – BGE has a 3.6% Facebook like to customer ratio)
Ted
Cruz Has a Swag Problem – A Few Tchotchkes Can Go a Long Way (NY Times)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington
State House Passes Budget (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Inslee Laments Demise of $12 Minimum Wage Bill, Hints at
Ballot Measure (Northwest Public Radio)
Oregon
Denies Money for Former First Lady's Email Release Fight (Reuters)
GENERAL NEWS
Olympia Tire Shop Employees Thwart Man's Attack (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Lightning Strikes Two Jets on Approach to Sea-Tac
Airport (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
Tulalip Tribal Member Accused of Clubbing Eagles
to Death, Trying to Sell Them (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Too Many Amber Alert Notifications Worry Cell
Phone Owners (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Autonomous Car Drives from San Francisco to New
York (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
DIVERSIONS
This
TRON Motorbike Is Totally Functional, And Yes, You Can Buy It
Utah
Man Returns 75-Pound Bag of Cash Found on Highway
Tiny
Songbird Tracked across 1,700 Miles of Open Ocean
Lucille
Ball Fans Want ‘Frightening’ Statue in Star’s Hometown Removed
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Mambo Kings - Beautiful Maria of My Soul (English)
The
Mambo Kings - Beautiful Maria of My Soul (Spanish)
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